Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Guns & Guns & Guns & Butter
The Culprit
I wish it had sunk through my thick skull on Oscar night in mid-March, but it’s screamingly clear now that the horrific distortion which has taken place in stocks isn’t due to Cathie Wood, Jim Cramer, or Artificial Intelligence. It all has to do with the latest handout to billionaires from the government in the form of the BTFP. You can plainly see in this layered chart that the moment that witch Yellen threw over $100 billion (yes, $100 billion, and climbing constantly) at the market, she made every bull ecstatic. It’s pretty much tick-for-tick.
Happy 4th of July
Yet More Oversight
Oh, I’m sure this’ll turn out just dandy. I wrote about just such an intrusion into our daily lives in my novel.
